Does It Make Sense To Continue Searching For Hoffa’s Body?

MILFORD, MI - MAY 24: Demolition workers tear down a horse barn for the FBI during the search for former Teamster's Union president Jimmy Hoffa's body at the Hidden Dreams Horse Farm May 24, 2006 in Milford, Michigan. The FBI received a tip, reportedly from Donovan Wells who lived on the farm, that the Hoffa was buried on the farm. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Demolition workers tear down a horse barn for the FBI during the search for former Teamster's Union president Jimmy Hoffa's body at the Hidden Dreams Horse Farm May 24, 2006 in Milford, Michigan. (credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

DETROIT (WWJ) – One man’s claim that he witnessed the burial of Jimmy Hoffa 37 years ago has prompted another search for the missing Teamsters leader’s body. Roseville police plan to take soil samples from beneath the driveway of a home on Friday.

After all these years, does it make sense to keep looking for Hoffa’s body?

Listeners calling the WWJ Newsradio 950 newsroom on Thursday are split on the idea. Here are a some of your comments:

– “Let the man rest in peace, he’s gone, they’ll never find him anyway. Stop wasting time and money.”

– “No, I don’t think it’s a waste of time. An open case is an open case.”

– “I think that we should be sensitive to what the family would like to have done.”

– “It’s the same old same old. Give it up … nothing to gain.”

– “This has been going on for a long time. He’s not there.”

– “Why did it take so many years for somebody to come forth with information?”

“Motor City Mafia” author and Detroit mob expert Scott Burnstein thinks there’s no way the Mafia left the Teamsters boss in a place where he could be recovered after he disappeared from a Bloomfield Hills restaurant on July 30, 1975.

But the government isn’t so sure. In fact, they’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the decades-long hunt for Hoffa, according to inside sources. (More on this here).